Type of cough in Omicron patients, dry or phlegm?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Cough is one of the symptoms that many patients feel COVID-19 wave Omicron At the moment. However, there are no specific cough symptoms in Omicron because the characteristics of the cough experienced vary.

“From statistics, symptom surveys, most of them are dry coughs. But this needs to be confirmed again whether it’s true or not, sometimes people define a dry cough, when in fact there is phlegm but it’s difficult to expel,” said Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Traditional Medicine and Herbal Medicine Developers (PDPOTJI) , Dr. (Cand.) dr. Ingrid Tania, M.Si (Herbals).

Ingrid also said that in Omicron COVID-19 patients, the cough did not occur continuously, causing shortness of breath. If you cough until you are short of breath, it means that there are other causes, such as quoting Between.

Cough is a reflex of the respiratory system that aims to empty the airway of foreign body particles, microbes and irritants such as smoke and dust, as well as fluids and mucus. Apart from viral infections, coughing can be caused by irritants, side effects of drugs, infections that cause bronchitis. , gastric acid reflux, allergies, asthma to lung cancer.

Cough there is a dry cough, cough with phlegm or a combination thereof. Judging from the duration, cough is divided into two, namely acute cough which can end after two to three weeks, and chronic cough which generally lasts for a long time.

“In COVID-19, the cough is acute. But even if it’s a variant Omicron considered mild, there are still occurrences of Long COVID where after 4 weeks there are symptoms that are felt,” he explained.

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